Re: X11 article, for review
Re: X11 article, for review
- Subject: Re: X11 article, for review
- From: Michèle Garoche <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:36:57 +0200
Le lundi, 31 mars 2003, ` 20:49 Europe/Paris, Volker A. Brandt a icrit :
Michhle Garoche writes:
First, you can change the default location if you download the sources
via cvs, even put them on an external disk (I don't say that from
rumors, I did it on a Mac whose hard drive was too small).
That sounds good, but will all binary packages still work?
I said I use cvs, so not binaries packages. I let Fink compile them for
me (it does it much better than I do). When I put the the Fink
directories on an external drive, I had about 1900 packages installed
and never saw any of them not working.
o they make it very hard to find the patches used to compile
open source packages for fink, thus making it impossible to
reuse the hard work the many good contributors to fink did
Again, if you use the cvs mechanism, the patches are all grouped
together in well-known locations, you can access them, change them as
you like, recompile and so on and even put the sources in non standard
That sounds even better. Another friendly list owner also pointed
this out in private email. However, this is only somewhat semi-
documented on the fink web site. :-)
As you said that you are not a beginner, I'll guess you read
thoroughly the README, INSTALL, etc files. Even if you don't do this,
all is explained in great details here
<http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/bundled/install-first.php>.
I tried to check out the fink project from CVS, but the packages
directory is empty. Still, the patches are clickable under
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/fink/packages/, so
I must be doing something wrong. Most of the other subdirectories
do have contents.
Again see <http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/cvsaccess/index.php>
Anyway, this is not the forum to discuss fink details.
For sure, there are fink mailing lists: beginners, users, developers.
Michhle
<http://micmacfr.homeunix.org/>
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